Construction of a practice model and development of an evaluation method of the Occupational Therapy that Provides Support in a Community-Based Salon for Preventive Care

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K12964
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Seirei Christopher University
• Principal Investigator: Tajima Akiko 聖隷クリストファー大学, リハビリテーション学部, 教授 (80550243)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 地域作業療法 / 介護予防 / 住民運営の通いの場 / 作業療法士 / 間接的支援 / 作業科学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Community based occupational therapy is expected to be involved in long-term care prevention in community comprehensive care. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said that it will increase the number of salons for the elderly who do not distinguish between primary prevention and secondary prevention and promote the involvement of rehabilitation professionals in the salons for the elderly.Therefore, we aimed to systematize the knowledge and skills of community based occupational therapy in salons for the elderly and clarify their roles. As a result of the research,The occupational therapist had four roles in the salon: (1) to support planning and
administration of the salon, (2) to plan and lecture at the volunteer training course, (3) to support the salon conduct and give advice on reflection, and (4) to evaluate participants who come to the salon and give feedback to the administrators．

Free Research Field

作業療法学、障害学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究代表者は作業療法士であるが、作業療法学では作業療法士による健康増進のための地域づくりの実践と理論の開発が求められている。本研究の成果により、高齢者同士の支え合いから多くの高齢者の生活の質の向上が期待できる住民運営の通いの場での作業療法の知識・技術を体系化したことで、地域リハビリテーション活動支援事業を推進していくうえでのモデルとなるだけでなく、地域作業療法学における実践と理論の開発の観点からも意義があると考える。